March 10, 2011

Butthole Surfers - BBQ Pope (1982)

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  1. UnknownFriday, March 11, 2011

    cool! who was it?

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  2. HarryFriday, March 11, 2011

    I remember once, back when I was a surly 14 year old skater in South London, sitting in my room thinking I was well punk listening to the Locust Abortion Technician really loud. My dad walks in with a sneery look on his face, asks me what I'm listening to — I tell him, trying to make it sound really offensive and nasty, like I'm number one rebel. He just looks condescendingly at me and says "sounds like Captain Beefheart" and walks off. Totally destroyed my illusions, thanks dad!

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  3. StilesFriday, March 11, 2011

    Oh, The Butthole Surfers (quite fitting for this clip) just starting out in '82 and facing a bit of crowd abuse. At this point they hadn't even released any recordings. That's Gibby Haynes there with nothing on. They were notoriously weird, a couple of years later they acquired a naked dancer called Kathleen. I suppose a seminal influence on "grunge"... there's a good section on them in that book "Our Band Could Be Your Life"

    later

    http://www.jim-jarmusch.net/miscellanea/author_jim_jarmusch/interviewed_by_jim/gibby_haynes.html

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  4. oMoSaturday, March 12, 2011

    Great video! many thanks

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  5. p o w e rWednesday, March 23, 2011

    Butthole Surfers = Maximum Joy

    Locust Abortion Technician is great to look at and to listen to. The whole thing is incredible.

    Personally, I always enjoyed when this would appear and mess up the chart show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8

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